Tamara Fisher is a K-12 gifted education specialist for a school district located on an Indian reservation in northwestern Montana and past president of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education. With Karen Isaacson, she is also co-author of Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and Their Teachers. Her hobbies include drawing, hiking, fourwheeling, and building houses. (She lives in a house she built herself.) In this blog, Fisher discusses news and developments in the gifted education community and offers advice for teachers on working with gifted students.

Gifted Webinars

Greetings, everyone! Thought I'd pass on some information for all of you about some great new learning opportunities.

Last fall, I mentioned the Webinars on Wednesday series hosted by NAGC (the National Association for Gifted Children). They are continuing the series this spring with a line-up of topics such as "RTI for Gifted Education" (a three-part series beginning tonight), "The Creative Underachiever," "Resource Roundup," "Talent Development within the DMGT Framework," and "New Concepts of Creativity and Giftedness." The presenters are all nationally-recognized within the field of gifted education. Each webinar takes place on a Wednesday evening and will be one-hour long. A relatively small registration fee is now required, but registering will also gain you access to an archive of the webinar a few days after it has aired. To learn more, and to register, click here.

Additionally, the University of California @ Irvine's Extension program is offering four free webinars on gifted education topics this spring. Topics include "Gifted and Talented Instruction on a Budget," "Implications for Educators of Gifted Minority Students," "Troubleshooting Today's GATE Programming Obstacles," and "Classroom Applications of 21st Century Skills." Each of the free UC Irvine webinars lasts one hour. To sign up, visit this page.

Additionally, the Center for Talented Youth offers webinars that explain their program offerings, including their Talent Search program and their incredible summer and online classes for gifted students.

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